i dont mind having asperger syndrome

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. I really like what you've said here. It makes sense to me.

I would ascribe that to instinct. In the idealised situation, a human being is both individual as well as part of a community. Operating within that community is beneficial for the individual, and it will put its own community before other communities. But I believe that even the 'neurotypical' individual's primary concern lies with himself or herself; 'looking out for number one', in other words.

Doesn't really bother me. Sometimes I wish I was better at social interactions and had more friends, but that's about it as far as AS is concerned.

I think whether having it bothers me or not is pretty irrelevant since I can't do anything about it. I just don't think much about it.

You should probably separate the "like having AS" from the "don't mind having AS."

I voted "a bit" purely based upon the practical necessities of having to interact socially in order to survive. I feel my life would be easier if that wasn't an issue. However, if society was different, and we could survive without social interaction then it wouldn't bother me. Social interaction for the sake of it is something I can live without in the main, and frankly I'm glad that I don't get myself involved in all of the BS that goes along with it.

I don't care.

After all, I haven't known any different.

Sometimes I don't like having it, I'd like to be a little bit more normal and make friends but i don't mind too much

Ahhh...to be normal. To be one of those 80,000 cheering fans at a college football game. To be that man who takes his wife and kids to Disneyworld. To be that man at a bachelor party or throwing back a few at a bar after work. To be the one sight-seeing in new cities or enjoying new restaurants with friends and family. Ahhh...to be normal.

It sounds like hell.

Yeah, I feel the same way. I don't dislike what or who I am as a result of my aspergers. What I dislike is how the NTs are and how it's incompatible and ridiculously difficult to figure out people's motives sometimes. I try my damndest to understand them, and they don't try one bit to understand me. They just write me off as slow because I can't always tell when people are joking.

And what's kinda funny about the traits you list for NTs, those are all things most would probably agree would make one immature, yet WE are always referred to as "immature." The only way in which we're "immature," is that we don't understand social cues, and we have meltdowns. In just about every other case, I'd say we're at the very least equal, and most of the time, much more mature than the NTs who live out their(sometimes their entire)lives like they're still in highschool. That s**t was immature when they WERE in highschool, and it's sure as hell immature now, but they still do it. Some people NEVER change. It's all a popularity/look who has the most(and the most expensive)s**t contest.

Rather than approach people with a clenched fist, I prefer to keep an open hand.

Why?

Because while an open hand held outstretched can be an inviting gesture, it can also be used to deliver a pimp slap. Defence + offence in one.

That is one of the reasons this is one of my favorite songs:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0NPCmeMAdw[/youtube]

That is a great song.

Exactly, they say we're immature, and yet I've witnessed firsthand that they all act like children, especially in war. When I think of war, I think of death, yes. But mainly I see just a field of kids fighting over something stupid, like toys, or whatever. And that's seriously how i see the world.

How can anyone female not hate having AS. I think it's one of the worst things that could ever happen to a girl. I bet the vast majority of respondents who said they liked it are men.